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Single lens creating a diffraction pattern?

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Finding distance from velocity, force, momentum, mass, and time

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[Special Relativity] Test Particle Inside the Sun's Gravitational Field

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Kinetic energy of alpha and beta particles from radioactive decay

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Determine the Electrical potential at a given point

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Specific heat and Debye temperature relationship with temperature

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Correct statement regarding a conductor in a magnetic field

  • songoku
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Collision between a block and a curved up-ramp surface

  • rashida564
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Gauge pressure of water oozing out of a pipe

  • brotherbobby
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Why Do Light Beams Need to Be Parallel in Young's Double Slit Experiment?

  • Crystal037
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Calculating the magnetic field of an infinite solenoid

  • Adesh
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The definition of the proper time

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Deriving the electrostatic pressure of a water droplet

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Calculating shear stress, direct stress and factor of safety

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Time period of a periodic function

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Time period of an object traveling in an elliptical orbit

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Find the velocity of the wind relative to the boat

  • gnits
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Find the force so that all blocks are at rest with respect to each other

  • songoku
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Cat chasing a dog, not in a straight path

  • Bipul Neupane
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Why does treating a pendulum as circular motion give the right acceleration?

  • rashida564
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CD diffraction grating experiment: varying screen distance vs CD separation

  • KDPhysics
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How to know whether motion is simple harmonic motion or not?

  • Beelzedad
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At what angle do we have to kick a ball up the hill for n-rebounds?

  • bolzano95
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Proving Acute Angles from Two Equations

  • Saptarshi Sarkar
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Time it takes for the rocket to fall down

  • Noah159
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Motion in Electric and Magnetic Fields -- (Uni Level Dynamics)

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How does the rotation of Earth affect the height of a tidal bulge?

  • etotheipi
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Inclined Plane Forces - with a twist

  • Spencer25
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Find the accelerations of all three blocks and the tension in the rope

  • rashida564
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Understanding Total Voltage in Parallel Circuits

  • physics_CD
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Why does my Kirchhoff's loop equation give different current values?

  • nmsurobert
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Analyse the cutting force of this bolt cutter

  • BiostudentWouter
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Average current around a magnetic loop that changes its shape

  • Alefan_
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Physics: How much is this person's femur compressed?

  • brittanyr
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Torque with an oddly shaped lever

  • Mike Lessard
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Tension in a rope wrapped around a shaft, pulling in a mass

  • rashida564
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Problem involving friction, with a mass being pulled up a slope

  • Helena Durrant
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A circuit with switches, capacitators and resistors

  • eyespy
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Magnetic field Calculation of a Square Wire Loop (with a changed segment)

  • Physicslearner500039
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Gamma factor when doing four momentum problems

  • bonbon22
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How can you calculate change in length without force and area units?

  • chriscarson
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Electric field between two capacitor plates (proof)

  • Harry17
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Circuit diagram questions -- 3 Light Bulbs in a 120V circuit

  • joshqg
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Two movable pulleys lifting a mass

  • rashida564
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Is the Chain Rule Applied to Spherical Polar Coordinates Different?

  • physconomics
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Pressure due to two liquids in a U-tube

  • brotherbobby
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How do I find the angle and direction of a magnetic field?

  • Physicslearner500039
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Electric field involving 4 point charges in a rectangle

  • dcarmichael
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Ladder problem: why is my normal force calculation wrong?

  • Icefire_16
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How Do You Calculate Time Ratios in Motion with Drag Force?

  • tanaygupta2000
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Momentum transfer of brittle objects

  • sbartyc
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Conical pendulum with height exceeding string length

  • Spencer25
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Destructive interference with two wavelengths in a wedge

  • jisbon
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Damped Oscillator and Oscillatory Driving Force

  • physconomics
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What is the Relationship Between Strain and Change in Length in Hooke's Law?

  • chriscarson
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Electron excited from the ground state to a quantum state

  • jisbon
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Light rays passing through a glass prism

  • jisbon
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What is the work done to move this Charge?

  • Reneee
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Finding Angles in a Double slit experiment

  • jisbon
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Finding the distance in an optics system

  • jisbon
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Velocity of the center of mass of the system

  • Amik
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What Is the Magnetic Field at Point P on the Y-Axis?

  • Physicslearner500039
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Acceleration of a moving wedge with a falling block

  • Yalanhar
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Kinetic energy of a ball rolling down a ramp

  • kaloyan
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Magnetic field due to two loops

  • Physicslearner500039
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Use of hard drive magnets to build an MHD propulsion ship

  • fRod57
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Torque on a Beam Due to Gravity

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Finding resultant force on charge q from two charges 2Q and Q

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Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics (Stokes Theorem Corollary)

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Divergence of 1/r² in spherical coordinates and the delta function

  • Apashanka
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Are T1 and T1' the same tension in a pulley system?

  • rashida564
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How to find tension in a rope at an angle

  • Icefire_16
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System with Pulleys and a Rope That Might Break

  • rashida564
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Projectile Compresses a Spring Gun

  • BrandonInFlorida
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Simple pendulum period with magnetic force below the bob

  • Curious_Student
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Light momentum and torque on a screen with black and mirror sections

  • JD_PM
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Why can't a rope and block be an isolated system?

  • Amik
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Moment of inertia, conservation of angular momentum and energy

  • volodymyr379
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Rate of fall depends on rotation?

  • rzyn
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Water removal from grain bin with 10°C outside air and 18°C exhaust

  • Gopher72
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Circuit Analysis of a diagram with series and parallel circuits

  • joshqg
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Force due to Surface tension here

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Energy of particle when under a central force

  • Saptarshi Sarkar
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Deriving the first-order system for this governing equation

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Why does gravity feel weaker at the equator?

  • lightlightsup
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What is the efficiency of the circuit?

  • Baiatul122001
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Is work a vector quantity in physics?

  • Amik
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Volume average of mass function

  • Apashanka
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Forces on the archer's left hand holding a bow

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Deriving Momentum From Newton's Second Law of Motion

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Projectile Motion with Air Drag

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Entropy change when melting ice then refreezing the water

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Polynomial fitting for projectile motion with air resistance

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